Chapter 68: A Shocking Victory
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Li Shimin had a strong temperament when he was the king of Xiao Qin in his early years, laughing when he laughed, angry when he was angry, and sat back and acted according to his preferences, which offended many people, so that when Li Jiancheng was competing for the position of prince, he suffered a lot of losses. Later, he changed his personality, and the city government became deeper and deeper, and he was almost not startled, even if he encountered something difficult, he could face it calmly.
This sudden reaction was so intense, the Manchu Dynasty was incredulous, and he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, there must be something extraordinary written in this war report.
Li Shimin's expression was shocked, and looking at the things recorded in the battle report, the whole person was shocked.
This battle report is a good news and not a merit book, but only a result, and does not record in detail the detailed merits and roles of the soldiers and strategists. But because of this, it is particularly shocking. Especially a king like Li Shimin, who knows how to do military affairs, can detect some key points from the bits and pieces of records and understand the entire layout strategy.
The result is simple!
The Yamato Kingdom was destroyed, and the Yamato Kingdom was captured, and the ancient queen of the Yamato Kingdom, the powerful minister Soga Ezo, the son of Prince Shotoku, the eldest brother of Yamabei, and the three hundred princes and magnates.
Baekje was destroyed, and more than 100 people from the royal family were captured.
Goguryeo was destroyed, the Goguryeo king Gao Bao was captured, and the Goguryeo minister Yuan Gai Suwen was forced to die for his father Yuan Taizuo, and the Goguryeo royal family and the Yuan clan were all bound.
In less than 20 days, Luo Shixin destroyed the Three Kingdoms and captured the three kings, and reached the Eastern War with lightning speed, making the Eastern Route Army achieve a comprehensive victory.
Not only that, but after the war report, he also requested the establishment of the Metropolitan Protectorate in Goguryeo, with Li Daozong as the governor of Pyongyang, Su Dingfang as the governor of Fuyu, and Liu Renliang as the governor of the Metropolitan Protectorate, so as to stabilize the situation in the east. The implication of this is self-evident......
As Ma Zhou said, in the trade-off between the interests of the Tang Dynasty and Silla, the Tang Dynasty took the greatest advantage of the benefits, and the land of Goguryeo and Baekje belonged to them. Silla did not take advantage of the slightest advantage at all, but was grateful to the Tang Dynasty, and their king Jin Baijing would come to Chang'an to meet him with the triumphant army that followed Luo Shixin. He didn't know how Luo Shixin did it, but this victory on the open side is like this, and the victory in the dark is the same, it's really not simple.
This victory cannot be described as pretty.
Shock!
Enough shock.
"Haha!" Li Shimin looked at the battle report repeatedly, and said loudly: "Let me tell you another great news!" On the 20th, the commander of the Eastern Route Army, Luo Shixin, destroyed the three kingdoms of Yamato, Baekje, and Goguryeo, captured the kings and ministers of the three kingdoms, and was about to bring the king of Silla Jin Baijing to the court in the near future......"
A short sentence, like a bombshell, exploded among the ministers......
After a silent shock, the discussion suddenly erupted.
The court was chattering, and there was a mess of heads.
Li Shimin stood on a high place, looking at the civil and military forces like this, and did not stop it, and infinite pride surged in his heart. A good man with three gangs, an outstanding emperor relied on a group of astonishing and far-sighted advisers and a group of brave and invincible generals: now he has Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhan, Wei Zheng, Ma Zhou, Changsun Wuji, etc. in Chinese, and Li Jing, Luo Shixin, Hou Junji, Li Shiji, Su Dingfang, and Li Daozong. When it comes to the lineup, it is comparable to Wei Yi, Li Si, Wang Qian, Meng Tian, and Meng Yi in the hands of Qin Shi Huang, and compared to the master father Yan in the hands of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Sang Hongyang, Dongfang Shuo, Wei Qing, Huo Quai, Huo Guang, etc. Surpassing the Qin, Han and Han martial arts, is it not just around the corner?
The half-night chatter of the Manchu Dynasty and the civil and military affairs finally converged into a congratulatory word: "The Tang Dynasty is victorious......"
Li Shimin did not hesitate, Xu Luo Shixin, as the chief administrator, arranged for the matter of Haidong, and asked him to escort the kings of the three kingdoms and the princes to return to the court with the king of Silla.
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Pyongyang City!
After being appointed by Li Shimin, Luo Shinobunaga let out a sigh of relief, did not hesitate for a moment, and ordered the major governors to let them reorganize the army in triumph......
It was all as he had planned.
In response to the situation in Haidong, there was only one Yamato country against Roshi's confidence. It was not that he underestimated Goguryeo and Baekje, but that this was exactly the case.
Goguryeo has already disabled him, and there is no evidence. Although Baekje became the number one military power in Haidong by mistake, it lacked the talent to command the army. Just Silla and Jin Yuxin can attack the strong with the weak, what is there to be wary of Datang?
So in the final analysis, it's still Yamato!
The foundation of the Yamato Kingdom is overseas, and although it has lost several battles, it has always fought outside the country and has not really hurt its bones.
Baekje and Goguryeo were able to support the idea because of the support of the Yamato Kingdom. Yamato's state affairs have a clever plan to break the Tang Dynasty, and what he said so firmly naturally became the last straw. As long as this life-saving straw is destroyed, the last hope of Baekje and Goguryeo can be cut off. Therefore, after Luo Shixin got the news brought by Zhang Zhongjian, he immediately formulated a beheading tactic according to the situation.
This decapitation tactic may seem a bit bizarre and a little whimsical, but it is in response to the national conditions of little Japan.
The current system of Little Japan is the predecessor of the shogunate system during the Warring States period, and it is not a unified country. To put it bluntly, there are countless vassal states in the small island state, and the largest of the vassal states is about the same as the emperor to govern the world, while the surrounding vassal states are subject to the largest vassal states. If the vassal states are not strong enough to convince the people, a new vassal state will command Gyeonggi and start the Battle of Sannak.
The Soga clan is currently the most powerful vassal state in Little Japan, and they control Gyeonggi with heavy troops in their hands and command the princes of the four directions. The princes who have a good relationship with him will listen to his orders. If the relationship is not good, it will naturally be contrary to the yang.
Because of the resistance of the Tang Dynasty, the prestige of the Su clan was greatly reduced. In order to get out of the predicament, they decided to fight the island country, and for their own ambitions, this time they gathered all the troops that could be mobilized in their hands and threw them into the Haidong battlefield step by step. Such an arrangement will inevitably lead to the emptiness of Gyeonggi...... If any country is faced with the emptiness of Gyeonggi, it will inevitably transfer troops to the four directions to enrich the important areas of Gyeonggi. After all, there is nothing more important than Gyeonggi, but the system in Japan at this time is different.
The entry of foreign soldiers and horses into Gyeonggi is equivalent to Shangluo, and it is impossible for the Soga clan to let any soldiers who are not from the Soga clan enter Gyeonggi and occupy important places in Gyeonggi. This also gave Luo Shixin an opportunity to take advantage of it, and immediately attacked the key places in Gyeonggi, Japan after defeating the Japanese naval army.
Luo Shixin originally agreed with Zhang Zhongjian that the Tang Dynasty would help him repel the invasion of the Yamato Kingdom, and he would help the Tang Dynasty explore the situation and navigation routes of the Yamato Kingdom in Gyeonggi, so that they could guide the troops to Gyeonggi......
It was almost exactly as he expected.
On 16 June, Zhang Zhenzhou and Liu Renliang led the Tang Army's naval division from the 72 islands of Haidong and directly reached the Namba landing through the Seto Inland Sea. There were only 5,000 soldiers in Gyeonggi, and there was no way to resist it. Their city structure was simple, it was not a city at all, and it was destroyed in a battle. Queen Tuigu of Yamato Kingdom, Soga Ezo, Prince Shotoku's son Yamabei Big Brother King, and Prince Tamura were all captured by the Tang army, and the Yamato Gyeonggi nobles were almost plundered.
On 19 June, the Sogachang Maro and Jushi Hu people, who were trapped in the old capital of Silla, learned of the upheaval in Gyeonggi and hurriedly abandoned Geumseong with the intention of withdrawing to the mainland. That night, the withdrawal was intercepted and attacked by Luo Shixin, and the whole army was annihilated. Upon learning of Luo Shixin's victory, the old county pavilions of Silla responded and killed the officials appointed by Yamato one after another and surrendered to Luo Shixin. The homeland of Silla, let the whole territory of Luo Shixin be recovered.
On June 25, Luo Shixin waved his army to Baekje. When the king of Baekje learned of Luo Shixin's attack, he once again sent his only available general, Jiebo, to defend against the Tang army's attack. Luo Shixin's troops were divided into three routes, and Su Dingfang, Li Daozong and his troops were divided into three ways to attack Jiebo. Jiebo's ability is mediocre, and he can't deal with Jin Yuxin when his strength is better than Jin Yuxin, let alone Luo Shixin, Su Dingfang, and Li Daozong.
In the face of their siege, the soldiers in the hands of Jiebo who made Jin Yuxin fight even more difficult to resist the Tang Dynasty's Baisheng Xiongshi, and they did not support it for a day. Jiebo was still tough, personally inspired the soldiers, and led the army into battle without hesitation to face off with the Tang army in Huangshan in Baekje, and the whole army was annihilated, and none of them surrendered.
On June 26, the Baekje army was greatly shaken when they learned that Luo Shixin had attacked the national capital.
The military level of Baekje King Fuyu Zhang was extremely average, he knew Luo Shixin's ability, and he was extremely afraid of it, and did not dare to move forward in the national capital of Si Xuancheng, and learned of the movements of the Tang army, while worrying about being trapped in the lonely city, and on the other hand, he was afraid of the failure of the blockade. So he was at a loss and panicked. As a result, within one day, he ordered to retreat to Siyu City for a while, ordered to go to block the Tang army, and ordered to withdraw from Siyu City and flee to the sea...... More than a dozen contradictory orders were issued one after another.
The morale of the Baekje troops was not high, and they were even more at a loss when they received such an order, which caused rumors to spread in the army, and people were panicked, and they were in chaos first.
On June 28, Mo Hu'er landed in one fell swoop and successfully captured the capital of Baekje, Sihyun, and the young general Xue Rengui captured the Baekje king Fuyuzhang alive in the pursuit.
When Luo Shixin took Baekje, the Tang army under Pyongyang City also took action to create psychological pressure on Pyongyang City.
On July 3, Luo Shishin appeared at the foot of Pyongyang under the pressure of King Mumu of Baekje and Queen Tuigu of Yamato Kingdom to actually tell the soldiers in the city that they had nothing to do and hoped for reinforcements...... Surrender now can save lives, and by the day the city is broken, it will be too late.
Facing the darkness in front of him, Yuan Gai Suwen's father, Yuan Taizuo, stood up......
When it comes to intelligence and strategy, Yuan Taizuo is not as good as Yuan Gai Suwen, but his seriousness and calmness are not comparable to Yuan Gai Suwen, and he has long expected the result...... Yuangai Suwen made such a fuss that either pushed Goguryeo to the top or fell to the bottom, and for the sake of the future of the Yuan family, he let go of a gamble.
As a result, he naturally lost, and in order to save the Yuan clan, Yuan Taizuo forced Yuan Gai Suwen to death and chose to surrender......
All this in the short eighteenth day...... r1152
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